Apple: iPad Mini Wins Because It's Expensive -- TheStreet

Look at the iPad mini. People are willing to pay for something of quality that they know will give them a lot in return. It's no longer a case where it's a race to the bottom to create the cheapest and most easily-produced product. People are realizing that you frequently get what you pay for.

-- Eric Kuhn, The Wall Street Journal

NEW YORK (TheStreet) -- That's an excellent excerpt from an excellent article that reveals where so many otherwise excellent people miss with errant emotional reactions to Apple (AAPL) over the last several weeks. If these folks credit Google (GOOG) with any perceived weakness at Apple, they're really far gone.